2021 Digital Festival Alternative
To the Western World – Films and Panel Discussions
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st Irish Theatre Festival is offering films, talk-backs, and chats about theatrical work in a unique 2021 approach to their annual showings.
Traveling back in time to the 1980s, filmmaker Margy Kinmonth presents a film about painter Jack B. Keats and playwright John Millington Synge. In a film narrated by John Huston, we find Irish artists, just after the potato famine, inventing lyrical language, sharing images and stories about Connemara. Strolling through bright green lands, past stone covered beyond the seaside, and through the hills, two artists find solace and a sense of belonging. Their Ireland would forever be preserved in drawings, paintings, and plays.